Mar 31st 2008 - Posted by Ahson Rafiq
There comes a time when every blogger wants to share something about what is going on in their personal life. Although this can be good, it can also be bad for a blog focused on a specific niche. It is just a matter of how you go about it. Let’s go over the good and bad of blogging about your personal life.
Instead of spoiling you with the positive benefits that blogging about personal life topics on a niche based blog has, we will give you the negative effects that this can have.
If you have spent a little time looking into how SEO works, you know how Google checks your website for relevance depending on your main topic. You want to make sure that you don’t blog about your personal life on a niche based blog too much. This can hurt how relevant Google deems your blog to be. You definitely DO NOT want this to happen. After all, a good search engine ranking is the best thing any blog or website can have.
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Mar 30th 2008 - Posted by Ahson Rafiq
Microblogging is simply the form of posting small pieces of content on the Internet. There are websites that are dedicated to microblogging. A couple of these websites are Twitter and Jaiku. Microblogging is usually done from a mobile phone or instant messaging device. This makes it quick and easy to post a short statement or question while promoting your blog(s).
There are benefits and disadvantages that are attached to microblogging. As this concept is fairly new, it still is not perfect and this is where the disadvantages come into play. We’ll save that for last though, let’s get into the many benefits of microblogging.
Microblogging is a great addition to your current blog(s). You can encourage readers to check out one of your latest blog posts by providing a short description of it with a link. This is to be done using websites that are devoted to making it possible to use the art of microblogging. The character limit that Twitter has put into place forces bloggers or anyone posting a message to get their point across real quick. This helps to show your readers what is going on and assures you that you don’t lose their attention. You can also allow your readers to keep tabs on your current projects by posting updates that use microblogging to get the point across. You can also use microblogging to provide a link to interesting content that is available via the Internet.
Twitter can be rather useful for SEO as its Google pagerank at the time of this article is 8/10. Just to throw in some information to those that are interested, the Alexa rank for Twitter at the time of this article is 591. How can you benefit from the pagerank of Twitter? Many of the user status pages receive good pagerank as well since they are provided with a URL in the form of http://www.twitter.com/username. If you want to build your brand name, which most bloggers love the opportunity to do this, using a microblogging website like Twitter or Jaiku is a great way to do this. Not only will you have the possibility of gaining more readers from them finding you on Twitter or Jaiku, you can also encourage your current readers to read your blog posts more often.
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Mar 28th 2008 - Posted by Ahson Rafiq
Its important to know your friends but its crucial to know your competitors, your success depends on your comeptitor’s growth compared to your growth. constant improvements are a big factor in a blog’s success. Blogger’s learn from their past mistakes and better themselves by improving themselves on those particular mistakes and making better contnet or mantaining their business plan better.This is what I’ve learned from my analysis of all of my competitors and similar blogs in this niche.
The who, what and where
- Who’s your competitor,
- Whats his background in the niche
- Does he have the proper experience and the skills to be better at it? t
- What has he done in the niche so far,
- Has he proven himself as an authority within the niche,
- Where is the blogger based from,
- What platform he uses,
- What theme style he has taken up,
- What strategies he uses,
- Where he advertises,
- What he uses to market his blog
Those are the things you should know and learn from and maybe even embrace them yourselves, copying content is illegal but copying tactics and strategies is not.Its okay if you use the strategies used by the successful to be successful.
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Mar 26th 2008 - Posted by Ahson Rafiq
With the popularity of blogging increasing every day, there are many useful tools available to help with your blog. I’m sure everyone appreciates any help that they can get when they’re blogging. By using some of these tools, you can save time and headache.
1. Stock.xchng
If you are needing images for your blog or blog posts, this is a great place to find some great stock photos. This website is used by many web developers and individuals every day. Some of the stock images may cost some money while others are available for free. Flickr is great but sxc provides a hell lot bigger collection of usable images for your blog while flickr mostly has copyrighted and/or personal photos.
2. Feedburner
Feedburner is an RSS tool that is used by tons of bloggers around the world. You can add an array of features to your RSS feed by using Feedburner. Feedburner is considered one of the most effective feed marketing tools ever, it offers a wide selection of tools to help you optimize and promote your feed along with awesome stats on how many subscribers you have and what they use to subscribe and for more advanced stats they also provide information on views and clicks on your feed items. Its a must have for all blogs.
3. Pingoat
Pingoat is a tool that pings (notifies) the different services that keeps track of blogs and publishes the blog content. This will let the service know that your blog has been updated and they will begin to crawl your blog to find out what has been added. This can lead to increasing the incoming traffic to your blog.
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Mar 26th 2008 - Posted by Ahson Rafiq
In order to maximize the success of your website, there is a lot that needs to be done to your website design. The best way is to hire a website designer to put in all of the leg work for you so that you don’t have to. Having someone that is skilled in the website design field is very important for any website to have no matter what type of niche you are in. If you have looked into hiring a web designer, you may have ran into some of the astronomical prices that certain website designers charge. Hire-A-Designer is providing a cheap way of having a website designer work for you. No matter what type of plans you have for your website, you can rest assured that Hire-A-Designer has you covered and won’t be trying to squeeze every dollar out of your pocket.
As you probably know, there is a variety of skills that it takes to build an extraordinary website. Hire-A-Designer has someone to provide the skills that your website requires. Since this company is based in India, it is hard to beat the pricing since the cost of living elsewhere is more expensive. This allows Hire-A-Designer to offer very competitive prices for the Web Design industry. The first step to hiring of of their web designers is to select one of the designer profiles that fits your current needs.
There are many different pricing options that are available depending which type of designer profile that you choose. You can hire a designer hourly for as little as $12 per hour. This is a good option for smaller projects. If you have a web design company or have ongoing website maintenance requirements, this would be a great choice. Keep in mind that if you know that you have plenty of work for the designer to do each month, you can hire one on full-time. As you can see, it doesn’t matter how small or big your website(s) or project(s) are, there is a solution that will easily fit your needs as well as budget. Hiring a designer is highly recommended for companies that want the absolute best for their website(s).
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Mar 26th 2008 - Posted by Ahson Rafiq
Blogging is just like SEO, trends change and so should you. This time’s topic revolves around building up responsive readers/visitors for your blog because without comments on your blog your content just seems empty and pointless to first time visitors and advertisers. Comments give your content a social touch that makes even first time readers wanna know what the topic is on and what they can get from it. Although building up random traffic at first is important but after that’s done you should focus on targeted and proper traffic that is interested in what you have to say. When a blog launches it’s strategy is Traffic for content but when you have that then you need to have Content FOR traffic , if you are posting about what they want to know about or understand then they will certainly leave a comment or ask a question or give you their point of view.
Be Gracious
Before you go around asking for comments, keep in mind that whatever kind of response you get is good, just because someone gave you a negative response doesn’t mean you should go ‘captain destructo’ on them,
every opinion counts, the negative comments help you improve your flaws and the good comments only promote your content more.
No Question Left Unanswered
If you have a question from your readers then don’t let it go unheard, answer it and make sure every question is treated with the same level of importance beacuse you are building a relationship with your readers here if they know you are there to help and provide more information and insight on a topic they will be drawn to your blog more and will bring some traffic along them too, this is a great trait to have if you want to be mentioned on other blogs in context.
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Mar 26th 2008 - Posted by Ahson Rafiq
- Template Kingdom makes it easier for you to have a good website by offering templates for you to use. Using templates makes your website more attractive and visitor-friendly. With the variety of template categories that Template Kingdom offers, you are sure to find one that suits your website. Why have an ineffective website because you can’t afford to hire a web designer to make it more effective? Using a template saves money while making your website stand out to your visitors. Template Kingdom has over 100 template designers which adds a lot of different tastes into the mix of templates that they have to offer.
There are a total of 3 different types of templates that you can choose from. The first one is website templates which is a regular template used for websites. This is the most common among aspiring website developers or companies who are looking into building a website in a cost-effective manner. The website templates at Template Kingdom are attractive and user-friendly. If you’re looking to save some money without sacrificing the quality of your website, this would be a great option that you can definitely reap the benefits from.
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Mar 23rd 2008 - Posted by Ahson Rafiq
So I’m giving away free internet marketing videos now, these videos are really helpful if you are starting out in the marketing field every video is a step by step tutorial to teach you the very basics of internet marketing.Best of all its all for free.
To download these head over to the internet marketing video page and simply subscribe to us and download the file, if you are already subscribed to our feed via RSS or email you will see the download link below this post and every other post for that matter.
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Enjoy
Mar 22nd 2008 - Posted by Ahson Rafiq
Well in my opinion seo changes along with trends and we have to adapt to new tactics and strategies to rank higher then before, so i will try my best to add as many up to date seo tips as possible every week. This week we’ll be focusing on indexation and avoiding any kind of penalties that may occur in the future, prevention steps in other words. Here we go.
Link Building
If you are building links for a site remember to get both nofollow and dofollow links its good to have a good amount of both to avoid any suspicious robots from search engines, although it may seem paranoid to do so but it does help, having a good amount of both nofollow and dofollow places your blog in the gray area were you won’t be suspected upon as much.
The no follow links have to be from relevant sites as well as the do follow links, if you are focused on mentions and blog by just focusing on linkbaiting then it won’t hurt to buy a high pr link once in a while at a good directory, spoiling yourself once in a while doesn’t hurt, as a matter of fact recently i thought of treating myblog to another link, this time i submitted it to idk since i know its owner and he keeps the site in really good shape so it seemed like a great deal to me.
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Mar 22nd 2008 - Posted by Ahson Rafiq
Its time for some link love all around, all the blogs below I have subcsribed to and are a great ready everyday to get ready to blog on my own blogs!
